Originally Posted by misterpretzel (Post 2597044)

Please excuse my ignorance- I'm not in the industry. Do airlines prefer and/or actively choose to hire women/minorities over I guess... white males?

Originally Posted by RJCaptin (Post 2597078)

Double sided. Over qualified white males complaining, while legacies jump on under qualified diversity hires. Qualified applicants are called untrainable yet the are good enough to fly the same passengers at a lower payscale.

Originally Posted by A330FoodCritic (Post 2597224)

You ever consider companies might find it harder to train a guy with a gazillion hours?

Lots of young White FO's get hired before older high time captains.

Originally Posted by Meatball (Post 2597122)

Yes! Of course!

One need only to look at the street hires who went from Envoy to AA ahead of the flow. Half the airline applied to AA through the front door. There may be one or two, but I don't know a single black or female pilot who applied to AA from Envoy who was not hired off the street, but I can think of almost twenty who were. I know several white males who were hired too but every single one of them were AA interns before flying for Eagle/Envoy.



This is just the way things are these days and it's not only the airlines.

Originally Posted by RJCaptin (Post 2597288)

Yet, it is up to the gazillion hour captain to teach the F.O how to land with a 20knot crosswind.

Originally Posted by A330FoodCritic (Post 2597310)

Do you have a gazillion hours? Stuck at a regional?

Originally Posted by A330FoodCritic (Post 2597224)

You ever consider companies might find it harder to train a guy with a gazillion hours?

Lots of young White FO's get hired before older high time captains.

Originally Posted by Learflyer (Post 2597419)

Why are you being such a little twit to us gazillion hour guys?